Cape Town – Johannesburg
Cape Town to Johannesburg by the Cape & Rand Railway Company: 1 days at sea in 1925, first class from £9, sailing Monday, Wednesday, Friday from Cape Town, weekly.
Passage computes it for Call of Cthulhu and any 1920s or 1930s tabletop campaign: pick two places and a date, and print the ticket the purser's clerk would have written.
Cape & Rand · South African mail trains
Itinerary
- Cape Town → Kimberley · 970 km · via the Karoo
- Kimberley → Johannesburg · 480 km
Sailings
Monday, Wednesday, Friday from Cape Town, weekly; homeward Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday from Johannesburg.
Trains
Classes sold
- 1920 to 1939: First Class, Second Class
The whole route in 1925
- Distance
- 783 nautical miles
- Duration
- 1 days on Rand Mail
- Fare · First Class
- £9
- Fare · Second Class
- £6
The whole route in 1933
- Distance
- 783 nautical miles
- Duration
- 1 days on Rand Mail
- Fare · First Class
- £9
- Fare · Second Class
- £6
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